Music, Birmingham City University
Thesis title:
My research seeks to explore the relationship between verbal language and improvised music, focusing particularly on jazz and jazz-influenced music since the 1960s. My approach draws upon historical, philosophical, and artistic research to investigate specific intra-actions between words and improvised music, and challenge dominant notions of words and music that have tended to pre-figure our understanding of these relationships. In doing so I hope to make available new insights and approaches for contemporary artists and scholars working withverbal language and improvised music.